Kids’ Books

Lucy Maud and the Cavendish Cat

On May 2, 1907, L.M. Montgomery wrote, in a letter to a prairie homesteader she had been corresponding with, of the good news that her book manuscript had been accepted by a publisher. In this ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

The Annotated Anne of Green Gables

By Wendy E. Barry, Margaret Anne Doody, Mary E. Doody Jones, eds.

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

The Lighthouse Dog

By Betty Waterton, Dean Griffiths, illus.

The Lighthouse Dog is the latest in the series of West Coast picture books that Orca does so well. This is both an advantage and a disadvantage. The book is well presented and captures West ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Erik the Viking Sheep

By Elizabeth Creith, Linda Hendry, illus.

Erik, an Icelandic sheep with red wool, arrives at the sheep farm one day. After listening to a little girl’s stories about the Vikings, he starts to imagine that he is Erik the Viking Sheep, ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Alligator Baby

By Robert Munsch, Michael Martchenko, illus.

One night, Kirsten’s mother wakes up in labour, yelling, “I’m having a baby, I’m having a baby.” Kirsten’s parents get lost on the way to the hospital, and her mother gives birth at the zoo. ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Divide

By Michael Bedard, Emily Arnold McCully, illus.

In 1883, when Willa Cather was nine years old, her family moved from Virginia to an isolated Nebraska farm on the Divide, a broad plateau between the Little Blue and Republican rivers. This long, uncomfortable ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Photoshop 5 for Windows for Dummies

By Deke McClelland

Sometime around 1400, Italian painters discovered linear perspective. This literally changed the way people saw, allowing the artist to blur the distinction between a surface plane and three-dimensional space. Suddenly the world could be represented ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Health & Self-help

Where Am I? the Story of Maps and Navigation

By Albert Gray Smith

Where Am I? presents a general overview of the development of navigation and map-making from the earliest maps on bark to the Global Positioning System. The text is clear, concise, and readable, and the author ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

In the Wings

By Carole Corbeil

Robert Fulford noted a few months back that a lump of Toronto writers – Ondaatje, Michaels – place their narratives amid the concrete pylons and thick sumacs of the city’s ravines. Add Carole Corbeil. In ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

My Travels with a Corkscrew: Memoirs of a Wine Lover

By Tony Aspler

Ford Madox Ford began drinking wine seriously when he was eight; Colette when she was 11. Tony Aspler, Canada’s best known wine writer and educator, was bribed by his foster mother with grapes at age ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

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